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HelloSince about a month ago I can't use my pdf-printer/editor anymore. I have been in contact with Adobe's support a few times about it but they can't help me.I'm not sure which product it is, I've had it for years and never had any problems. I think it might be the Adobe Acrobat XI Pro, as part of Adobe Technical Communications Suite 4. I also have the Technical Communications Suite 17 and a few updates of FrameMaker since then.Is there any way I can get my pdf-editor back working again, or do I have to buy a new application?Hoping for help!/Erika

Good morning,I'm using Adobe FrameMaker 12 (version 12.0.4.445), and Microsoft Word for Office 365 MSO (16.0.10827.20118) 32-bit.I regularly receive requests to pull all of the content from an existing Word document into FrameMaker. Often, these existing Word documents consist mainly of tables (hundreds of pages of tables). What would you all recommend as the most robust way to pull these tables into FrameMaker? The table rows have irregular shading patterns, and the table text is irregularly indented.All the best,Cameo

Hello!I've got a problem with FM which bothers me since years.Maybe someone got a solution for that?I need a "hanging indent" - but on the right side.For example when i have a TOC in which some entrys are too long for one line i actually have to enter manualy linebreaks to have a right indent.Is there a way to have this done by FrameMaker?I appreciate every recommendationRegardsThomas

When FrameMaker 2017 is in structured mode it takes about 2 minutes to startup. There is a grey screen with the built-in hourglass pointer. In non-structured mode, the loading time is around 10-15 seconds (FrameMaker 2015 did not do this). Has anybody experienced this? How would I go about troubleshooting it?

I just got FrameMaker 2019. I'm moving there from FM 12. I use primarily unstructured content, and have been using FM on and off for a lot of years. My initial thoughts are these.The installation is one of Adobe's best for FrameMaker. The software came as a single Zip file, that I downloaded. Running Set-up.exe in the Zip prompts you to unpack everything, which I did. And then, nothing. Nothing. So, I ran Set-up.exe again, and still nothing. The issue was, the second time, I selected the same Set-up.exe file I selected the first time: the one in the Zip. However, when I unpacked the lot, a second folder was created outside the Zip. When I selected that Set-up.exe, the installation began. Yay! Although the installation itself estimated "2-4 minutes remaining," the installation took closer to 25 minutes on my 4-year-old Windows 8.1 Lenovo laptop; I can't blame all of that slowness on Adobe. And, after the installation, I was not prompted to reboot, which made me happy.The first thing I d

Hi, I'm working with TCS 5 and want to find out if TCS 8 is a nice-to-have or must-have.How do I have to install TCS 8 to be able to test the new features so that the existing TCS 5 remains unchanged.Is it only a check box within the installation wizard or should I test the new version on another PC?

A contractor sent me FM file created in FrameMaker 2017. I have FrameMaker 2015. I cannot open these files. We no longer work with this contractor, so I cannot ask him to save the files in an older version or as MIF.

I have filed bug FRMAKER 5894:LineRectangleCreation via UIStroke can not be set to 0. It is automatically set to 0.015pt = 983 units.Stroke can not be set to 0. It is automatically set to 0.015pt = 983 units.Height can be set to 0.Rotated object reports Angle = 0.Rotated object reports correct angle.Creation by scriptBorderWidth can not be set to 0. Minimum is 0.125ptBorderWidth can not be set to 0. Minimum is 0.125ptHeight = 0 is not possible. Minimum is 0.125pt.Rotated object reports Angle = 0.Rotated object reports Angle = 0.In my huble opinion there should be equal behaviour of UI and ExtendScript concerning these facts.

Frame 2017. Preparing guide to convert to help.I set conditions, updated guide.The Console pod was open.After the update the following message appeared many times." (661882): Condition settings must not change between <XRef> and <XRefEnd>."Does it mean anything?Should I do anything about this?The files work OK etc.

Hello,I'm creating a cover for a user guide and I'd like the image to cover the entire page. Currently,  when I print the pdf, I have about 1 cm of white space around the entire image. I tried manually resizing the image in Frame. I also, tried to configure bleed settings in File > Publish. On the Marks and Bleeds tab, I tried changing the bleed to 2p0 all around, but I'm not familiar with these settings. Please let me know if my description is clear enough.Thanks!

<knit picking on>When drawing with FM tools a line or other open object can get arrow tips. Their style can be selected. My favorite looks like thisSince long I have notices that the real image of an arrow does not correspond to the properties of the object. Now I have checked this:This arrow was set up with these properties:ArrowBaseAngle = 90°ArrowLength = 786432 (= 0.423 cm)ArrowScaleFactor = 16384 = 0.25ArrowScaleHead = 1ArrowTipAngle = 16°ArrowType = 3BorderWidth = 1310720 = 0.706 cm = 20 ptHowever, measuring the arrow tip shows an ArrowLength is 2.35cm = 66.7 pt. 120pt (due to a line thickness of 20pt) would be 4.2333cm (what the property claims to be!)To set up a particular (user defined) tip appearance:➔ how to set the ArrowLength to really get it 12 pt long (for 1pt line thickness)?Of couse i could take the approach common to students: introduce a factor sigma (propertional faction to the result of the neighbour)...

Dear friends,Next step after lines and polylines: I want to draw arcs (with a constant radius) and encounter a similar problem as with the lines in the different quadrants.The blue lines are what I want to achieve. The outer three are correct, their starting angle is ≥ 0. The inner ones have starting angles -90, -60 and -30 degrees, which converted to 270, 300 and 330 respectively - because negative values are not allowed (they are interpreted as 0).I do not see how to force the Arc object to draw what I want. Drawing with UI is not easier: To get the desired angles is quite simple, but to get the arc in correct position after rotation …It seems that I need a comparable approach to the Line function (a multitude of transformations).#target framemakermain();function main () {var j, oDoc, oFrame, x0, y0, r, th0, thf, aArcs = [];    CM = 1857713, PT = 65536, DEGREE = 65536, pi = Math.PI;  oDoc = app.ActiveDoc;  oFrame = oDoc.FirstSelectedGraphicInDoc;  if (!o

I am trying to build a document that uses conditions. The person who set this up is now gone. I have tags that are named Show X100, Hide X100, Show UNIS, Hide UNIS. Why they would be named this way makes no sense since they are moved back and forth from the SHOW HIDE Condition in the POD. How do I identify exactly what condition is doing what?

I am using unstructured Frame version 13.0.2.433 and documents with text insets of other full documents so that I can use the same document multiple times in the same book. When I PDF the manual, a blank page shows up at the end of each document with a text inset. I don't want to have to delete these blank pages every time I PDF a book.

I have FM 2017 and cannot see the equations pod listed anywhere. Do I have to install it, or is it turned off now?

Hello,I have generated TOC for my manual in FrameMaker 2015.  I formatted the TOC paragraph styles as per our style guide.Added a tab stop as displayed.In the TOC paragraph style, when I select the tab stop and apply to TOC as displayed below:I am facing an issue in adding a Tab stop to the TOC paragraph styles. When I select the Tab stop and Click Apply. The indentation is as displayed below:Please let me know the reason for this indentation.Regards,Manasi.

Hi,     how to find the text based on specific language.. is there any mistake in following codefindParams = AllocatePropVals(2);findParams[0].propIdent.num = Constants.FS_FindCharFmt;findParams[0].propVal.valType = Constants.FTF_LANGUAGE;findParams[0].propVal.sval =Constants.FV_LANG_ENGLISH;var foundText = doc.Find(tloc, findParams);

Hi I have a problem with saving file into pdf it is asking for latest version of adobe distiller can you please help me out

Hello all,I write and maintain documentation for two different companies, but the software that I document is used by both. So, I maintain two different documents which are 80% the same. Structure wise, it is exactly the same, it differs in hardware and technical names, some procedures, etc.My question is: does Framemaker 2019 (currently using 2017 but planning an upgrade) allow me to, using variables/conditional/anything else possible for all the differences between the two documents, work with only one .fm file, and through it, produce two different PDFs?Thanks for the help! If my description was not clear enough, just ask me specific questions about it, I will be glad to answer. This would really help me, and I would be grateful for any inputs you may have.Thanks!

My laptop just died (CPU failure). Received a new one from work, and am currently installing all of my old application onto it. The new computer is a Windows 10 HP Elite Book G4, i5 7th gen CPU, 120gb M.2 SSD and 20gb of RAM (4 + 16).All the Adobe CC apps installed just fine... then came FrameMaker 2017. The screenshot above shows my error message. It downloads fine, extracts the files pretty quickly, then the installer works for about 5 seconds before this message appears. The Adobe website says that the "Support Advisor" has been discontinued, and I can't find it anywhere. I contacted Adobe Support and after 22 minutes on Chat Support, they just ended the conversation on me without any solution.I've re-downloaded the files 3 times now, I've tried running both the "Framemaker_14_LREFDJ.exe" extractor and the "Set-up.exe" installer, used the "AdobeCreativeCloudCleanerTool.exe", and restarted about 20 times now. After a solid week, I still can not get this to install on my new computer.

I guess a Newbie question.I like to seach for all text strings  "abc", "def, "zzzyyyyxxxxx"  and  replace it with a character style e.g.  abc, def, zzzyyyyxxxxxAnnette

Hello.I am using FrameMaker 2015 in Windows 10.We are writing a Reference section that will cover many programming functions. We'd like to use a horizontal rule to separate each section. We will be publishing to PDF and .chm, so the rule needs to expand and contract with the width of the browser window.i know how to create a rule, put it on a Reference page, and attach it to a paragraph format, but that width is fixed. I need a rule that will expand and contract as necessary.How do I do it?All suggestions gratefully received.--Nancy

Frame 2017Creating HTML5 helpI added a copyright footer for the help pages using the HTML Template fileThe footer is in a Times New Roman font.Where can  I change the font?I looked in the CSS but did not see whereThanks

One of our reasons for wanting to upgrade to FrameMaker 2019 from FrameMaker 11 is that now that we have been moved over to Windows 10, we cannot print PDFs from FrameMaker. I presume that the 64-bit version fixes this, but what about the 32-bit version (we have other products that we need to interact with that only support FrameMaker 32-bit).What are the other differences between 64-bit and 320bit, if any?

Hi,Before you tell me, I know I can refresh the display - but I'm wondering if everyone has this issue and has learned to live with it, or it's something to do with my machine setup. As I've been asked to give advice on specifying a machine to work with FM, I want to check - although my machine meets (exceeds) the specs, the graphics card is basic...I typeset a couple of journals in FM (programming journals, so the tool is appropriate for so many reasons).I get the source articles in all sorts of ways (HTML, markdown, asciidoc, Word, OO...) and I tend to paste-special as text to get the articles in. I have to layout and edit/proofread, so it's as easy to format as I edit...As you can imagine, the white-on-grey means I have to make any corrections to names one at a time, and keep refreshing because I'm effectively typing blind. This one isn't "occasionally" - it is every edit! (What it "should" look like on teh left, what I see while editing on the right.)  In the "text" examples,